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My personal Observations:

When in Sweden and Norway..
the percentage of Blondes and fair haireds is higher than in South Germanic countries(England-Germany-Holland)..
England, Germany and Holland have a lot of Blondes.. many more fairer types.. Scandinavia has alot more extreme Blondes/White Blonde..

But Scandinavians do have Black hair, Brown hair.. ofcourse.. many of them do.. i would say the most common hair colour in Scandinavia is Dark Blonde/ash brown.

I always feel germans/English/Dutch look rather comparable.. I can't often see the difference.

I always feel germans/English/Dutch look rather comparable.. I can't often see the difference.

Same proportions of hair colour.. Eye colour i think.

But this is just from personal experience.. not fact.

The average Dutchman is 184 cm tall (compared to about 180 cm for Scandinavians). How tall is the average Englishman? 176 cm? 177 cm? They are much taller than Englishmen and when I visited Holland a few years ago I didn't notice that they were any darker than Swedes. I did notice however that they were taller than Swedes. Dutch is the language most closely related to Scandinavian btw.

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Originally Posted by Tre Kronor

The average Dutchman is 184 cm tall (compared to about 180 cm for Scandinavians). How tall is the average Englishman? 176 cm? 177 cm? They are much taller than Englishmen and when I visited Holland a few years ago I didn't notice that they were any darker than Swedes. I did notice however that they were taller than Swedes. Dutch is the language most closely related to Scandinavian btw.

I havent a clue about height.. Maybe you are correct.

But from personal experience.. i think the Dutch are darker haired than Scandinavians.. they are much on the same breadth as English and Germans.

Just the general perception when i arrive in scandinavia, the sheer amount of pure blondes surprises me.. but in Holland and Germany, i don't see any more than i do In England.

Im not to knowledgeable if the Dutch.. but i know that the Norse, danes, frisians and jutes came to England from Scandinavia.. but i dont know about any Scandinavian genetic imput into Dutch peoples.. maybe they did, if anything, the Frisians from Denmark went to Holland.

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The average English height is probably 5' 10" so about 178cm.

As for hair colour it is a matter of gradient. Eastern England has a very large proportion of light hair and/or eyes, compared to Western England. In the Netherlands the proportion of blondes is higher in Friesland than it would be south of the Rhine.

If we go by Coons research the racial characteristics of English and Dutch are not that different. Both are predominantly Kelto-Nord, both have substantial Anglo-Saxon. The Dutch though do have slightly higher proportions of types more related to Scandinavia i.e Hallstatt and Falish. But these would not add to much overall difference.

Very close. They are related as the Germanic race. Including Holland, Austria, scots, icelandic, farosese and english

The language between danes, swedes and norweigan are very close you can understand each other with no big problem. You can learn easy german if you one of the other three languages.

It's bigger difference between Great Brittans and these other germanics.

There is nothing such as "Germanic race", but the point I am trying to make with this post is that even if it would exist, Austria wouldn't fit in it since Austrians are mostly of mix genetic origin, I'd say west and north-west of nowadays Austria are of Bavarian blood but the rest of it is mostly Slavic, thats Slovenian and Slovakian.

This also is the case with the percentage of haplogroup 1 (rb1). Ireland in the west has the highest percentage in the world. As you go eastwards it becomes less as does the percentage of redness in the hair. Hence scandinavian blondes are more golden blond and (I'm guessing) have a higher percentage of redheads than the Finns.

Most of the Irish people I have met have been blonde or fair haired. Yet Ireland only has about 10% haplogroup 3 (Norse) at the most.